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Ghana Eba Meko and Canned Sardine Tomato Sauce

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Ghana Eba with Meko and Sardine Sauce | Easy African Recipe Ghana Eba with Meko and Sardine Sauce Easy African recipes by The African Gourmet How to make Ghana Eba, Meko and Canned Sardine Tomato Sauce African recipe from scratch in your American kitchen. Eba is made with cassava flour known as Garri in Ghana Eba is made with cassava flour known as Garri in Ghana. Traditionally Eba is used as a side dish to soups and stews in Ghana and Nigeria. Cassava is known by various names, manioc, yucca, yuca, mandioca, and tapioca. Did you know? Nearly every person in Africa eats around 176 pounds or 80 kilograms of cassava per year especially ...

Authentic Senegalese Ceebu Yapp Recipe (Traditional Fish and Rice)

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Authentic Senegalese Ceebu Yapp Recipe (Traditional Fish and Rice) Quick Answer: Ceebu Yapp (Thieboudienne) is Senegal's national dish featuring fish, rice, and vegetables in a flavorful one-pot meal. The name means "rice with fish" in Wolof, and it's known for its rich tomato-based broth and broken rice texture. Ready in 60 minutes. Ceebu Yapp, also known as Thieboudienne, is more than just a meal in Senegal - it's a cultural institution. This authentic one-pot dish brings together fresh fish, seasonal vegetables, and uniquely prepared broken rice for a truly West African culinary experience. Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 40 mins | Total: 60 mins | Servings: 6 | Cuisine: Senegalese Ceebu Yapp Ingredients 2 cups broken jasmine rice 1 whole white fish (sea bass or grouper), cleaned and scaled 3 tomatoes, chopped 2 carrots, sliced 1 eggplant, cubed 1 cabbage, quartered 2 onions, sliced 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablesp...

Yedoro Stir Fried Ethiopian Chicken Dinner

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Yedoro is an Ethiopian stir-fried chicken dinner recipe made with red onions, peppers in Ethiopian clarified butter called niter kibbeh, and rosemary. A tip about making the perfect stir-fry Yedoro, if you add too much liquids your wok will cool down too fast and your chicken will simmer and not fry, you need your chicken meat to fry.  To make a good stir-fry Yedoro you absolutely must have an extremely hot sauté pan or wok. Just keep in mind, chicken meat should never be served rare, it must be well cooked. Eat your Yedoro stir fried Ethiopian chicken with Injera bread, it's easy to make but first lets make the Yedoro using the simple recipe below. Yedoro Stir Fried Ethiopian Chicken Dinner Ingredients 1 pound chicken, diced in small pieces 2 red onions, diced 2 teaspoons sea salt 3 sprigs rosemary 20 ground hot peppers of your choice such as cayenne peppers, jalapenos, banana peppers or habanero peppers. Juice of one lemon 2 tablespoons Niter Kibbeh Directions Use an...

Baking and Air Frying Unripe Green Plantains

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You eat green plantains and cook the same as eating potatoes. Green and yellow plantains are the same, the yellow ones are ripe, and the green are unripe. Green plantains are eaten during weddings, funerals and other traditional ceremonies as well as every day breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes. Plantains are grown in more than 120 countries to make recipes such as beer, fufu, desserts, banana chips, tostones, cooked with water, meat, fish, palm oil, salt, spices and other tasty plantain recipes. Both the ripe yellow plantain and unripe green plantain are peeled and cooked in boiling water or sauces, this is the most common cooking and eating recipe and is common in most plantain growing countries in Africa. Unripe fried green plantain chips are life. When you see a green plantain think of recipes you would use a potato. Fried Nigerian Kpekere pronounced k-per-re are unripe green plantains sliced thin, fried in oil and sprinkled with salt served as a snack, think potato chips....

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